1. narrow, illiberal, harsh, austere. Strict,rigid,rigorous,stringent imply inflexibility, severity, and an exacting quality. Strict implies great exactness, especially in the observance or enforcement of rules: strict discipline.Rigid, literally stiff or unbending, applies to that which is (often unnecessarily or narrowly) inflexible: rigid economy.Rigorous, with the same literal meaning, applies to that which is severe, exacting, and uncompromising, especially in action or application: rigorous self-denial.Stringent applies to that which is vigorously exacting and severe: stringent measures to suppress disorder.4. accurate, scrupulous.

strict

complied with or enforced stringently; rigorous: a strict code of conduct

3.

severely correct in attention to rules of conduct or morality: a strict teacher

4.

(of a punishment, etc) harsh; severe

5.

(prenominal) complete; absolute: in strict secrecy

6.

(logic, maths, of a relation)

applying more narrowly than some other relation often given the same name, as strict inclusion, which holds only between pairs of sets that are distinct, while simple inclusion permits the case in which they are identical See also proper (sense 9), ordering

distinguished from a relation of the same name that is not the subject of formal study